Reshoot- 9th of January

Reshoot - 9th January 

During our shoot on the 9th of January we decided to film the scenes which involve Chloe's character walking in various location with the envelope which visualises the journey of the tape. When shooting we decided to use various areas of our local town with pavement shots and park shots. These shots were essential to include as it gives the audience an insight into the journey that Mirabelle went on in order to illustrate the importance of go-betweens in our opening sequence. The shots we took focus on the prop and Mirabelle's shoes to portray her professional attitude and desire to complete her task to the best of her ability.

We decided to utilise various shot types and angles which focus on Chloe's character walking, to achieve this we used a tripod as this ensured the shots were stable and of a good quality. We had attempted to film these shots on the previous evening but later found lighting and weather was a significant issue, we decided to postpone the filming to the following afternoon stratigically timing the filming session before sunset. The lighting was not overly bright or warm as this would suggest that the character has a positive reputation which is the opposite impression we desired the character to have.

Once we had performed various test shots we moved onto the proper filming we decided to utilise multiple park areas, an alley way and a footpath. Lighting was good as it was daylight and ensured our mise-en-scene was interesting with an integuing yet mundane aesthetic. The locations we used had been planned in our location posts seen earlier on in our blog, they worked successfully in translating our narrative to screen. We had planned the timing of filming well to ensure lighting enhanced our locations.

We decided to shoot a shot which would be part of the 'office' sequence which depicts Chloe's character making her way to the undisclosed location. We used a local carpark which has a well lit stairwell to create the shots and tested various positions of the tripod to get the best heights and angles. The stairwell is split into two sections which gave easy access when creating a small sequence of travelling up the stairs which translated well on screen.

Overall, the filming session was productive after struggling with lighting in the original reshoot for these scenes. The tripod was a successful resource which enhanced the filming and we did have to create multiple test shots to make sure we would not have to reshoot again. This was the only strain in the filming process for our second reshooting session.